By John Donovan: 7 JAN 2016
The continuing collapse in the price of oil is turning into a nightmare for the board of Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
Especially for CEO Ben van Beurden and CFO Simon Henry, who have staked their reputations on completing Shell’s takeover of the BG Group.
This would not be the first major crisis at Shell for either executive. Both had involvement in the 2004 oil and gas reserves scandal. Ben van Beurden was personal assistant to the Group Chairman, Sir Philip Watts who was forced to resign. Simon Henry had a starring role.
Both managed to survive but are unlikely to do so if the BG deal falls through, as is increasingly likely, because of the ill-fated miscalculation over oil prices.
With hundreds of millions being paid to financial advisors, surely it was not beyond the ingenuity of those involved to have catered in the terms for the possibility of a severe fluctuation in the price of oil?
Is it not negligence on the part of BvB and Henry that this apparently did not happen?
There is a £750 million penalty payable by Shell if it withdraws.
The above screenshot from this related article published by the Financial Times
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